Some women at high risk for breast cancer may be able to make to reduce the risk for the average woman healthy lifestyle, released after a ...
Some women at high risk for breast cancer may be able to make to reduce the risk for the average woman healthy lifestyle, released after a new study today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Dr. Robert Shenk, medical director of the Breast Center, University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center in Cleveland, Ohio, said that these results can help illuminate JAMA study how women can change the risk of cancer.
"We have some of these models, but it takes a lot more factors," said Shenk ABC News. "I think, ultimately, go [doctors] having to search for the most innovative things."
To find out if a healthy lifestyle at the age of 30-80 who were tested, can reduce researchers from different institutions, the risk of developing breast cancer in white women of about 23,000 high-risk, including National Institutes of Health and the Johns Hopkins is poured through the data in your medical record about their smoking and snuff consumption habits, the weight ratios and the use of hormones.
Developing an average of 30, a woman about breast cancer has a chance when she was 80 by 11 percent, the report said. However, some women who "unchangeable" develop a much higher risk for the disease because of problems with such as family history, genetic markers and reproductive factors - the risk of developing breast cancer, as well as 23.5 percent.
were included in the study with the data from the Cancer Cohort and the national survey, the researchers created a model risk in this group of white women appreciate.
What they found is that those who are obviously at high risk for breast cancer because of genetic factors or family history can reduce your overall risk level by 11 percent by to adopt a healthy lifestyle.
"For women with the highest risk decile from uncontrollable factors, not drink with a low BMI or do not smoke, and use MHT not [hormone therapy for menopause] comparable to an average woman risks had in the general population," the authors. They warn that more research is needed to determine whether these lifestyle options to have the same effect in other groups of women.
Shenk is a healthy lifestyle not high BMI, indicating what types of body weight or obesity, not smoking and not drinking too much can each take control of their health risk feel more help and cancer. He also stressed that the information can inform better help on a cancer detection should be through annual mammography.
"You can change some factors that reduce the risk," Shenk said.
He added, however, that further research could also show that people with a family history of breast cancer may have a lower than expected risk.
Shenk said that some women can understand their risk more, and do not feel obligated to get cancer because of family history and some can to detect breast cancer because they have no history of foreign family.
"The average risk 10 to 12 percent for all is," Shenk said. "The highest risk factor of being a woman."
This study was limited by the special group - white women between 30 to 80 the age in Australia, Europe and the US The results can not be extended to a larger population. Moreover, ethnic differences affect the initial risk of breast cancer, so these results may not coincide with an increased risk of breast cancer for all women be because of genetic variations and family history.
